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Contractors' market

Article Abstract:

HW Group is a specialist recruitment concern which has seen a drop in its stock price following a stock flotation in Jun 1998. The company focuses on skiled workers in six sectors, with finance and accountancy accounting for 70% of sales. A high levels of variable costs, at over 80%, provides some protection in market downturns. Contract recruitment accounts for over 30% of sales, and this activity tends to perform well in a recession. The company's cash balance is strong enough for it to make acquisitions.

HW Group

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Premiere

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Premiere is a UK recruitment agency specialising in nurses, secretaries and truck drivers. The company plans to acquire a firms that will increase the number of its agencies to 25. The company benefits from a rise in demand for truck drivers as the UK economy recovers, and a rise in demand for home nurses due to UK policy of care in the community. The recruitment market is valued at more than 10 billion pounds sterling in the UK. The company could achive a profit of 788,000 pounds sterling for 1996.

Premiere Ltd.

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Winning program

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MSB International supplies personnel skilled in information technology, and four fifths of UK firms have been faced with a shortage of these skills. MSB International should benefit from this shortage, and its share price has risen. The company placed over 900 contractors in 1995, ranking fifth in the UK market, and has increased the number of sales staff to 46. The company is moving to larger premises in 1996 and has good growth potential which should make the shares a good investment.

MSB International

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